{"id":410,"date":"2009-02-03T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=410"},"modified":"2009-02-03T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T21:15:46","slug":"uq-communications-data-cards-and-chip-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/uq-communications-data-cards-and-chip-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"UQ Communications Data Cards and Chip Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-413\" title=\"UQ USB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/uq-usb.jpg\" alt=\"UQ USB\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/uq-communications-and-me\/\"> previously reported<\/a>, UQ communications will start Mobile WiMAX trial on the 26th of February.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am familiar with the WiMAX technology and Chipset vendors, I decided to research the devices to be used during the trial and Chipset vendors selected by UQ and it&#8217;s suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>UQ has currently two suppliers:<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shinseicorp.com\/wimax\/index.html\">Shinsei Corporation <\/a>&#8211; Supplying the UD01SS USB and the UD02SS Express Card. Accoring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uqwimax.jp\/signup\/device\/model02\/\">UQ website<\/a>, these products are actually from a Korean company &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modacom.co.kr\/product\/001.htm\">Modacom<\/a>. Modacom has a complete portfolio of devices for the Korean WiBRO network (WiBRO is almost identical to WiMAX). These devices use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctsemi.com\/index.htm\">GCT<\/a> WiMAX chipset. <a href=\"http:\/\/image.itmedia.co.jp\/l\/im\/pcuser\/articles\/0902\/04\/l_kn_uqwimqx_17.jpg\">This screen capture<\/a> displays device driver information, which clearly indicates GCT.<\/p>\n<p>2) NEC Access Technica &#8211; Supplying the UD-01NA USB and UD-02NA PCMCIA Card type. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beceem.com\/news\/020309.shtml\">NEC uses Beceem chipset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Missing from the list are:<\/p>\n<p>1) Samsung &#8211; which supplied the data cards to Sprint&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xohm.com\/en_US\/shop\/\">XOHM WiMAX<\/a> deployment in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>2) Sequans Communications &#8211; which power Zyxel&#8217;s CPE for the same Xohm deployment.<\/p>\n<p>3) Intel &#8211; As Intel Capital invested in UQ, I am certain we will see Intel powered WiMAX laptop within a few months.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot avoid mentioning the <a href=\"http:\/\/image.itmedia.co.jp\/l\/im\/pcuser\/articles\/0902\/04\/l_kn_uqwimqx_13.jpg\">UQ connection manager<\/a>, which in my opinion looks very similar to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbridge.co.kr\/bbs\/e_index.php?uid=03&amp;did=11\"> KT connection Manager<\/a>. (And I must admit that also Airspan&#8217;s MiMAX USB, which I developed, had the same look and feel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously reported, UQ communications will start Mobile WiMAX trial on the 26th of February. Since I am familiar with the WiMAX technology and Chipset vendors, I decided to research the devices to be used during the trial and Chipset vendors selected by UQ and it&#8217;s suppliers. UQ has currently two suppliers: 1) Shinsei Corporation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/uq-communications-data-cards-and-chip-vendors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UQ Communications Data Cards and Chip Vendors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,32],"tags":[55,82,183,130,131,154,187],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-japan","category-wimax","tag-beceem","tag-gct","tag-intel","tag-samsung","tag-sequans","tag-uq-communications","tag-wimax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}